We’re excited to announce a transformative update for Mainnet DAOs — Introducing Vote on the gas series without gas. This achievement represents a major leap forward in onchain governance, enabling DAOs to offer a secure and free blockchain voting experience to members.
Mainnet DAO participants can now cast their votes for free with the latest update to the Multichain Governance plugin. This iteration integrates LayerZero V2 to aggregate votes on the voting chain, which are then relayed and aggregated on the main chain. It also benefits from ZKsync’s native account abstraction and txSync’s Tsuko paymaster functionality, subsidizing voting gas costs for DAO members. The plugin is a bridge, chain and payroll bank. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) can integrate solutions of their choice.
In DAO governance, participation is not just a metric – it is the foundation of security and legitimacy. However, high gas fees have consistently hindered voter participation, forcing many DAOs to resort to off-chain solutions that compromise security, censorship resistance, and reduce trust in cross-network implementation.
Our solution brings back accessible on-chain voting, enabling DAOs to maintain onchain governance security while casting votes for free. This not only improves the experience for DAO members, but encourages more active participation to ensure all stakeholders have a say.
Since our initial launch of Multi-chain governance Additional Program In November 2023, we continued our relentless pursuit of resolving these critical onchain governance challenges. Here’s what this new iteration brings to the table:
- Vote from any EVM series: DAOs can now assign any secondary chain to vote, with LayerZero seamlessly aggregating votes back to the primary chain. Minimal bridging is required, as users simply plug their tokens into the desired chain, and the system takes care of the rest.
- Voting without gas via payroll teller integration: Using ZKsync’s native account abstraction, we implemented a payroll administrator workflow, with com.txSyncPaymaster Tsuko, powered by Aragon, covers all gas costs for votes cast on ZKsync, enabling truly gasless voting for DAO participants.
- Seamless user experience: A customizable front-end simplifies the process, allowing users to link tokens and vote in one place, ensuring a seamless, integrated experience.
- Unified crosschain implementation: Through the LayerZero OFT (Omnichain Fungible Token) integration, DAOs can scale governance and implementation of proposals across as many chains as needed while maintaining a single cohesive permissions system controlled by token holders across all chains.
- Modular and composite design: Our plugin is built from loosely coupled modular components, making it adaptable to the unique needs of any DAO. Whether it’s changing the bridging protocol or chain or adding new management features, the system can evolve with the requirements of the DAO.
Here are the basic steps to pass a motion:
- Bridge symbols: Members can link tokens from the implementation chain to the voting chain before creating a proposal. Members can also remain in the implementation chain and connecting again is always an option.
- Create a proposal: Members with the minimum number of tokens set by the DAO can create proposals.
- Voting stage: Eligible members vote directly on the voting or implementation chain, with votes pooled until transmitted.
- Send votes: The collected votes are sent from the voting chain to the execution chain.
- Receive votes: The execution chain validates the proposal’s vote balance and updates it with the votes received.
- Implement the proposal: The proposal is executed across all threads included in the proposal.
Aragon DAOs need to install the Multichain Governance v2 (Toucan Vote) plugin and pair it with a custom user experience. Our team can assist with deployment and installation. Below is a diagram of the technical architecture of the plugin, to learn more, have a look at Github repository.
Our commitment to solving these challenges and strengthening onchain governance is unwavering. Going forward, we are exploring the use of storage directories with RISC Zero to further simplify the voting process by eliminating the need for bridging and enabling custom multi-chain enum aggregation. Our collaboration paves the way for these next-level innovations, and we look forward to sharing more details soon.”
Multichain architectures are complex. We build governance technology so you can focus on developing your protocol. Our solutions are designed for rapid deployment with extensive customization options to suit your specific needs. Our governance solutions are designed to scale with your DAO, providing the flexibility to adapt as the decentralized landscape continues to evolve.
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